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- Laser inventor and Nobel laureate Charles Townes dies at 99 https://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/01/27/nobel-laureate-and-laser-inventor-charles-townes-dies-at-99/ 3 comments
- Nobel laureate and laser inventor Charles Townes dies at 99 http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/01/27/nobel-laureate-and-laser-inventor-charles-townes-dies-at-99/ 14 comments
- New ‘deep learning’ technique enables robot mastery of skills via trial and error http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/05/21/deep-learning-robot-masters-skills-via-trial-and-error/ 10 comments robotics
- Drug discovered that reverses aging in mice https://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/05/13/drug-perks-up-old-muscles-and-aging-brains/ 15 comments worldnews
- Robotic telescope discovers three super-Earth planetary neighbors http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/04/28/robotic-telescope-discovers-three-super-earth-planetary-neighbors/ 5 comments science
- Helicopter parenting better for pets than for kids http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/01/14/pet-parenting/ 3 comments science
- There is no way yet to tell if any potentially habitable world is really habitable, except for 'EPIC 201367065 d' now. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2015/01/16/three-nearly-earth-size-planets-found-orbiting-nearby-star/ 3 comments space
- Arsenic in drinking water linked to 50 percent drop in breast cancer deaths http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/10/28/arsenic-drinking-water-breast-cancer/ 54 comments science
- Berkeley scientists image electrons jumping from silicon valence shell in real time; a primere - it takes less than 450 attoseconds or 450 quintillionths of a second http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/12/11/scientists-measure-speedy-electrons-in-silicon/ 15 comments science
- Faster switching helps ferroelectrics become viable replacement for transistors http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/10/26/faster-ferroelectric-switching/ 6 comments science
- Earth’s magnetic field could flip within a human lifetime: A new study demonstrates that the last magnetic reversal 786,000 years ago actually happened very quickly, in less than 100 years – roughly a human lifetime http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/10/14/earths-magnetic-field-could-flip-within-a-human-lifetime/ 68 comments science
- "Getting-by girls"—sociologist writes about subculture of white lower-middle class girls who perpetuate their class standings through a culture of slacking http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/08/16/getting-by-girls/ 4 comments culturalstudies
- California drilling for water has made its mountains get 6 inches taller. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/05/14/central-valley-groundwater-depletion-raises-sierra-and-may-trigger-small-earthquakes/ 3 comments science
- Buddhist economics: oxymoron or idea whose time has come? http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/03/13/buddhist-economics-oxymoron-or-idea-whose-time-has-come/ 3 comments economy
- Geographic variation of human gut microbes tied to obesity: People living in cold, northern latitudes have bacteria in their guts that may predispose them to obesity, according to a new study http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2014/02/14/geographic-variation-of-human-gut-microbes-tied-to-obesity/ 14 comments science
- Teen night owls likely to perform worse academically, emotionally "The results present a compelling argument in favor of later middle and high school start times in the face of intense academic, social and technological pressures, researchers said" http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/11/10/late-bedtimes/ 2035 comments science
- A cost-effective sleep - a research from the University of California, Berkeley, shows that an hour’s nap can dramatically boost and restore your brain power http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2010/02/22/naps_boost_learning_capacity/ 141 comments science
- Quest to test Einstein’s speed limit http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/07/29/quest-to-test-einsteins-speed-limit/ 5 comments science
- New BOINC app puts idle smartphones' computing power to work for science http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/07/22/new-app-puts-idle-smartphones-to-work-for-science/ 5 comments science
- Berkeley discovers a way to make concrete that is more durable and more earth-friendly... from the ancient Romans. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/06/04/roman-concrete/ 623 comments science
- Scientists Capture First Images of Molecules Before and After Reaction http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/30/scientists-capture-first-images-of-molecules-before-and-after-reaction/ 3 comments science
- Whether we’re listening to Bach or the blues, our brains are wired to make music-color connections depending on how the melodies make us feel, according to new research from the University of California, Berkeley http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/16/musiccolors/ 14 comments science
- Scientists pinpoint how we see a 95 mps baseball coming http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/05/08/motion-vision/ 7 comments science
- Scientists construct first map of how the brain organizes everything we see. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/19/semanticspace/ 6 comments science
- Scientists improve argon dating technique and use it to all but confirm that the Yucatan asteroid impact was the tipping point for the dinosaur extinction 66 million years ago. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/02/07/new-evidence-comet-or-asteroid-impact-was-last-straw-for-dinosaurs/ 168 comments science
- Poor sleep in old age prevents the brain from storing memories http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2013/01/27/sleep-memory/ 189 comments science
- Scientists use brain imaging to reveal the movies in our mind [a bit older but it wasn't on cogsci] http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/09/22/brain-movies/ 15 comments cogsci
- Asking specific groups of drivers to stay off the road at certain times can dramatically reduce traffic http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/20/cellphone-gps-data-suggest-new-strategy-for-alleviating-traffic-tie-ups/ 174 comments science
- Berkeley scientists construct first map of how the brain organizes everything we see. The result: "a continuous semantic space" [x-post from r/science] http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/19/semanticspace/ 5 comments linguistics
- Scientists construct first map of how the brain organizes everything we see http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/19/semanticspace/ 17 comments cogsci
- Squeezing boobies can prevent breast cancer. SCIENCE http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/17/malignant-breast-cells-grow-normally-when-compressed/ 9 comments worldnews
- Squeezing breasts could suppress malignant cancer cells. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/17/malignant-breast-cells-grow-normally-when-compressed/ 309 comments science
- Conservatives can be persuaded to care more about the environment, study finds http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/12/10/conservatives-environment/ 3 comments politics
- Eye proteins have germ-killing power, could lead to new antimicrobial drugs, study finds. When it comes to germ-busting power, the eyes have it, according to a discovery by UC Berkeley researchers that could lead to new, inexpensive antimicrobial drugs http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/09/24/antimicrobial-keratins-in-eye/ 85 comments science
- Highly religious people are less motivated by compassion than are non-believers - Social Psychological and Personality Science. http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2012/04/30/religionandgenerosity/ 22 comments science
- Experiments show lower classes are quicker than the privileged to show compassion http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/12/19/classandincome/ 77 comments science
- Magnetic memory and logic could achieve ultimate energy efficiency http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/07/01/magnetic-memory-and-logic-could-achieve-ultimate-energy-efficiency/ 5 comments science
- Cal Baseball officially reinstated as team preps for College World Series http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/06/17/cal-baseball-officially-reinstated-as-team-preps-for-college-world-series/ 7 comments baseball
- SETI@Home to focus on Kepler planetary survey’s 86 top Earth-like planets http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/05/13/uc-berkeley-seti-survey-focuses-on-kepler%E2%80%99s-top-earth-like-planets/ 10 comments science
- Has the Earth’s sixth mass extinction already arrived? http://newscenter.berkeley.edu/2011/03/02/has-the-sixth-mass-extinction-already-arrived/ 4 comments science